Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / Scott Timcke.cke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timcke, Scott, author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects--United States.

Information technology.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology--History--21st century.

Algorithms--Political aspects.

Algorithms.

Algorithms--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Bristol University Press 2021

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a timely analysis of the growing impact of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Scott Timcke uses Marxist analysis to explore the way digital devices, social networks, data and algorithms, and the technology giants that lie behind them, are changing the way people think about politics and society.

Contents:

Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule

Mystification, rationalization, externalization

References

Index

Back Cover

The retreat from basic descriptions

Courting disaster

Institutionalizing hierarchy

5 The Whiteness of Communication Studies

The conception of progress

Race in America

Misrecognition and modernity

Capitalism's extra- economic dimensions

6 Misinformation and Ideology

Popular rhetorics of misinformation

Ideology and politics

Reactionary racial agendas

Externalization

7 Testbeds for Authoritarianism

The reconceptualization of war

Experimentation on new frontiers

Blended information warfare

Technology as the so- called solution to the social question

Liberation is not opaque

2 The One- Dimensionality of Data

Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics

The politics of quantities

Reification, mystification and alienation

The spector of positivism

A depoliticization of the social question

3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class

Finance and class struggle

Downplaying class differentiation

Information robber barons

Infrastructures for reactionary politics

Ruling class solidarity

4 Platforms of Power

Staving off class struggle 'from below'

Democratic socialism was the compromise

Front Cover

Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Great Simplification

Computation and the social question

The limits of progressive neoliberal social theory

Communication and the end of neoliberal politics

A material consolidation

Summary and outlook

1 Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology

Data, politics and rights

The code of capital

Code as material governance

Computational reason

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9781529215328

1529215323

9781529215342

152921534X

9781529215311

1529215315

OCLC:

1231205862

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access